Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Social security benefits are calculated and paid to the public by a very large number of Department of Health and Social Security staff based in regional and local offices throughout the country .
2 In the rat small intestine , many drugs are acetylated and excreted into the lumen .
3 These topics are developed and broadened in the second year and more emphasis is placed on rigour and abstraction .
4 What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action .
5 Elements of the design are developed or resolved in a series of local activities .
6 Though since the judicature Act came into force in 1875 the rules of Common Law and Equity are recognized and administered in the same court , yet they still remain distinct bodies of law , governed largely by different principles .
7 Whatever the arrangements , it is very important to get ground rules agreed before the move takes place , so that some of the possible snags for all concerned are foreseen and nipped in the bud .
8 During 1990 SCOTVEC received a number of requests regarding the possibility of certification of National Certificate Modules where students are taught and assessed in a language other than English .
9 Basic number sets and simple addition are taught and practised in the first Numbers Book .
10 All bargains are registered and settled at the London Options Clearing House ( LOCH ) a wholly owned ISE subsidiary .
11 The cable cores of the flex are stripped and laid in the correct channels of the plug ; the plug pins are twisted to secure the wires ; and then the fuse cover is closed .
12 Meanwhile at the 12 area offices customer complaints ( e.g. poor water , flow , dirty water etc ) are received and put into a PC .
13 The forms are checked and returned to the census officer for coding .
14 Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility .
15 Slave systems were typically displaced by the ‘ feudal ’ mode of production , where a class of partially free serfs are coerced and exploited by a dominant aristocracy of landlords , backed by a small central state .
16 It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year .
17 This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions .
18 Swiftly eggs and milt are shed and sink beneath the gravel grains .
19 Every time that it comes to capping regulations , those same authorities are blamed and pilloried for the spending for which Ministers have happily claimed the credit .
20 The fact that where goods are designed and manufactured to the buyer 's special order the seller will have greater knowledge of the buyer 's requirements and the buyer will rely on the seller 's skill may make it less reasonable for the seller to exclude or limit liability ; on the other , hand , if goods are manufactured to the buyer 's special order , it may be more reasonable to expect the buyer to insure against losses .
21 The M-Series of mini-tower machines are designed and manufactured in the UK , and even have a British BIOS .
22 Both productions are designed and directed by the same team responsible for last year 's successful production of IOLANTHE .
23 Typically , tradition weighs heavily on us : curriculums are organised and taught in the way that we have always done it .
24 They are organised and led by the people and , although a religious leader is present to offer assistance , the nature and activities of the group are decided by the members .
25 Johnson Matthey 's R&D activities are organised and co-ordinated on a worldwide basis .
26 LEFT Tiny plant and animal remains , retrieved through wet sieving , are sorted and studied under a microscope .
27 The means by which people are caught and recruited into the underclass has changed .
28 After a year in the cage the hens are caught and transported to the slaughter house .
29 The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound .
30 which brings up the main point and that is we have got to make sure that those people who are nominated or delegated within the terms of the contract , are people who have the knowledge and experience
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